TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clarke,Steve
AU  - Clarke,Steve
AU  - Coady,C.A.J.(Tony)
AU  - Giubilini,Alberto
AU  - Sanyal,Sagar
AU  - Savulescu,Julian
TI  - The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate
SN  - 9780198754855
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Humanistic ethics
KW  - Morale humaniste
KW  - Morale
KW  - Progrès médical
KW  - Biochemistry
KW  - bicssc
KW  - thema
KW  - Biology, life sciences
KW  - Enhancement
KW  - Medizinische Ethik
KW  - gnd
KW  - ethics (philosophy)
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
KW  - Mathematics and Science
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Movements
KW  - Humanism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Biomedical Enhancement
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - ethics
KW  - Genetic Engineering
KW  - bioethicists
KW  - drug therapies
KW  - human enhancement
KW  - intellectual traditions
KW  - people with disabilities
KW  - philosophers
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities and be able to do so in more ways in the not-too-distant future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of human enhancement technologies becoming widely used, while others have viewed it with alarm and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. Unfortunately the debate over the ethics of human enhancement appears to have reached an impasse, with proponents and opponents of human enhancement drawing on different intellectual traditions, relying on different methodologies and 'talking past one another'. In order to move this debate forward, we need either to find new ways of understanding the current debate or to develop new ways of thinking about the ethics of human enhancement. In this volume leading philosophers and bioethicists invite us to adopt new ways to think about the ongoing debate, either by drawing on work in psychology that helps to explain common reactions to the prospect of human enhancement or by finding points of comparison between the current debate about the ethics of human enhancement and other academic debates, such as the debate about justice for people with disabilities. Other contributors offer original lines of argument about the ethics of human enhancement and seek to take that debate in new directions
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49605
ER  -